This tree is outside every day with no panties. Absolutely scandalous. What would John Ashcroft say? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft#Spirit_of_Justice_cen...

went outside to check what was still doing ok in the garden, and later Sarah had a few people over to see photos & hear stories from her Nepal trip. Afterwards everyone else went to Tap & Barrel but I was in a weird mood where I felt lonely at home but didn't want to go out. Jeff came home and we had dinner together and watched Breaking Bad.

314/365.

I took a tree for a guide - I mean

Gazing sideways, I had chosen idly...

...I walked on,

Taking my bearings from that trunk

And, as I moved, the tree moved too

Alongside, or it seemed to do...

From Tree, Charles Tomlinson

A tree at Hoskote Lake.

Just under it are five Wood Sandpipers. For the cynical, my friend has an excellent close-up of one of the birds. And behind, somewhere at the right side middle is a perched Great Cormorant.

Snapped this on one of my walks. Somedays, its really beautiful right in my own back yard. Paths leading to Lake Benson, Garner, NC

Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor).

Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge.

Grayson County, Texas. 20 May 2020.

Nikon D7500. Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD.

(240mm) f/6.3 @ 1/1000 sec. ISO 720.

Female Tree Swallow perched near nest cavity. A rare breeder in North Central Texas. KN

Tree trunks intertwined

Tree, IBM Glen, Union, NY (IBM Glen named after the corporation founded in the neighboring town of Endicott, NY)

Trees help you see slices of sky between branches,

point to things you could never reach.

Trees help you watch the growing happen,

watch blossoms burst then dry,

see shade twist to the pace of a sun,

birds tear at unwilling seeds.

Trees take the eye to where it is,

where it was,

then over to distant hills,

faraway to other places and times,

long ago.

A tree is a lens,

a viewfinder, a window.

I wait below

for a message

of what is yet to come.

Waiting for a Message

by Rochelle Mass

Connected (in the Connect group): horizontal branch

Beech-Tree Shadows

See how the tree’s negative

Moulds itself to ground,

Climbs its neighbour’s bole,

Holds out pincered limbs

To the sun’s projection?

It is like love: a dark nothing

Cast across a void, subject

To shifting, prone to falter

When it goes dull, contentedly

Wearing another’s graffiti.

See how the tree’s negative

Gilds itself with leaves,

Tresses its girth with ivy fringes,

Darkens moistly at the groin

Where trunk meets root?

It is like love, dressing up

And making do, clinging

To contours, sweating out

A wet devotion. The light’s

Still: but Earth’s in motion.

Poem by Giles Watson, 2012.

No sunny beach shot today as it's all cloudy and rainy. So i went out in the rain and shot a tree

instead.

Edit: Just found out that Gary Moore died today.

Watch this in celebration of guitar skills: www.youtube.com/watch?v=18FgnFVm5k0

Isolated but perfect.

Who cares about 'rule of thirds' - this photo is about the tree so it gets center stage

olive trees around Bet Gemal monastery

Gingko tree, turning yellow

Trees in fog on a Sussex track

These trees in a Cambridge park had turned white due to being covered in silky cobwebs produced by millions of caterpillars. Larvae of the Bird-cherry Ermine moth was the cause of this eerie sight!

Nikon l35 AF

Fuji x-tra 200

Key West

Our tree mechanic ^.^

My Tween has taken to climbing the tree in the backyard and listening to music (on the iPad - making me nervous) as her fortress of solitude. I tried to sneak up on her and failed.

Trees, IBM Glen, early autumn

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Trees at the bottom of Manse road, Baron's Haugh, Motherwell.

Trees by what used to be The White House off Marquis Drive, Cannock Chase. UK

Pin cushions made with felt, crochet and beads. Blogged at bearpawandbearpaw.blogspot.com/2010/02/little-trees.html

Christmas trees, wet felted over a cone shaped resist.

real bonus I was chasing the linnets around and a bird flew in a nearby bush so snapped away did not know it was a tree sparrow until I got in the shade and clocked it on the back of the camers

A tree that has seen the test of time in Eastwell Manor.

A Tree Swallow sits on a branch near it’s nesting box at Greenway Park, London Ontario Canada

Tree

I really like the way these trees look.

This magnificent beech tree has many images in it, including the big bird.

Some scenes around Long Beach, California.

Saggy tree melting in the summer heat. (It wasn't very hot while I was there, maybe highs around 80?)

"Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable."

— Victor Hugo